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Scientific Notebook
È un word processor semplificato, ma con un potente sistema di computer algebra incorporato.
Il software permette di creare documenti che contengono testi, formule e grafici, risolvere le equazioni matematiche e, grazie all’interfaccia point-and-click, il suo uso risulterà essere semplice e veloce.

Versione 5.5
Con la nuova versione 5.5, MacKichan Software introduce un aggiornato motore matematico, una grafica avanzata ed estende le funzionalità per la scrittura di documenti LaTeX. Oggi collaborare è diventato più facile: i nuovi filtri di importazione consentono di importare documenti scritti direttamente in LaTeX su altre piattaforme. È possibile poi condividere i lavori con i colleghi e esportare file PDF da Scientific Word e Scientific WorkPlace utilizzando il formato pdfTeX; i file PDF creati potranno essere visualizzati su ogni piattaforma utilizzando un semplice PDF viewer, come Adobe Acrobat Reader.
La nuova versione 5.5 supporta adesso anche l’esportazione nei formati RTF, HTML e l’esportazione di funzioni matematiche in formato MathML o come immagine.

L’aggiunta di nuovi strumenti LaTeX nella versione 5.5 estende inoltre le capacità di scrittura dei documenti, includendo una libreria di modelli di documenti internazionali multilingua fornita su cd-rom. Tutte le nuove caratteristiche sono ampiamente descritte nella nuova edizione del manuale “Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word”.

Le nuove caratteristiche della versione 5.5 sono moltissime!

Oltre a quelle suindicate troviamo:
- Nuovo motore di computer algebra per eseguire calcoli e grafici all’interno del proprio lavoro
- Grafici animati 2D e 3D e animazioni con VCAM e OpenGL 3D®
- Esplorazione dei grafici e animazioni create grazie ai semplici controlli
di VCAM
- Inserimento di etichette di testo che seguono il movimento del grafico ruotando durante le rotazioni
- Creazione di grafici impliciti utilizzando 3 variabili
- Nuove funzioni semplificate per la scrittura di formule e la creazione di grafici
- Calcoli eseguibili direttamente nel documenti di Scientific WorkPlace e Scientific Notebook
- Conversione in LaTeX di equazioni MathType importando un documento RTF
- Creazione di file PDF con grafici
- Trasformazione automatica delle referenze in collegamenti hypertext
- Creazione automatica della struttura del documento con le miniature delle pagine.

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Scientific Notebook Version 5.5 is ideal for reports, homework, and exams. With Scientific Notebook, creating attractive documents that contain text, mathematics, and graphics is seamless and easy.

Version 5.5 includes RTF export, enabling you to share your work with colleagues or friends who do not have Scientific Notebook.

Quick, Clean, and Easy

The software is simple to use, yet powerful enough to facilitate teaching, communicating, learning, and exploring mathematics in the classroom. It is based on an easy-to-use word processor that completely integrates writing mathematics in natural notation.

Entering text and mathematics in Scientific Notebook is so straightforward there is practically no learning curve. Formatting is fast, simple, and consistent, since it is done with tags that define the document structure and appearance.

The software comes with reference manuals and an extensive online help system for creating documents and doing mathematics. If you need additional help, MacKichan Software provides reliable, prompt, free technical support.

The Power of Computer Algebra

Scientific Notebook is supplied with a built-in computer algebra engine. You can solve equations right in your documents with our easy-to-use interface.

You don't have to master complex syntax to be able to evaluate, simplify, solve, or plot mathematical expressions. Full computer algebra capabilities are available. You can compute symbolically or numerically, integrate, differentiate, and solve algebraic and differential equations. With menu commands, you can compute with over 150 units of physical measure. You can import data from graphing calculators.

In addition, you can use the Exam Builder provided with Scientific Notebook to construct exams algorithmically and to generate, grade, and record quizzes on a web server.

Animate, Rotate, Zoom, and Fly

With Scientific Notebook Version 5.5, you can create 2-D and 3-D plots in many styles and coordinate systems, and enhance the plots with plot labels in specified locations and orientations. And with VCAM you can animate these kinds of plots: 2D plots in polar coordinates, 2D and 3D plots in rectangular coordinates, 2D and 3D implicit plots, 2D and 3D vector fields, 3D tube plots, 3D plots in cylindrical coordinates, and 3D plots in spherical coordinates and vector fields.

View all your plots in the VCAM window with playback toolbar controls. Use your mouse to start, stop, re-run, and loop animations. Define an animation variable t for your plot and specify the animation start and end times and the rate of frames per second. With OpenGL 3D graphics, you can rotate, move, zoom in and out, and fly through 3D plots.

Work with "Live" Mathematics Over the World Wide Web

If you have Internet access, you can open the file at any URL address from inside the software. With Scientific Notebook, you can send mathematical documents containing text, equations, and plots over the Internet. Scientific Viewer, our free web browser, makes the exchange of technical documents a breeze.

The software supports hypertext links, so you can facilitate navigation for your readers through a series of related documents. Readers can view and print documents using Scientific Viewer.

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Features in Version 5.5

Version 5.5 adds the following features to the compatibility, typesetting, and computation capabilities of Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook:

• Compute and plot. In SWP and SNB, compute and create plots right in your document.

• Animate 2D and 3D plots. With newly-implemented renderers, create animated 2D plots in polar coordinates, animated 2D and 3D plots in rectangular coordinates, animated 2D and 3D implicit plots, and animated 3D tube plots and plots in cylindrical and spherical coordinates and vector fields. Define an Animation Variable for the plot and specify the animation start and end times and the rate of frames per second.

• Manipulate and inspect 3D plots. Rotate, move, zoom in and out, and fly through 3D plots.

• Explore plots and animations with the VCAM window. View plots in read-only or read-write documents using the VCAM window with playback toolbar controls. Use your mouse to start, stop, re-run, and loop animations; change the animation speed; rotate; and zoom-all from the VCAM toolbar.

• Label 2D and 3D plots. Now you can enhance your SWP and SNB plots with text labels that move with the plot when you rotate or zoom. You can specify the location of the label within the plot both horizontally and vertically, and you can set the orientation of the plot precisely..

• Create 3D implicit plots. Plot equations involving three variables.

• Use completely revised instructions. The new edition of Doing Mathematics with Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook explains how to use the built-in computer algebra system to do mathematics and create plots without dealing directly with the syntax of the computer algebra system.

• Collaborate more easily. Now you can import the contents of files created directly in LaTeX or LaTeX2e into SWP or SW using a special non-SWP/SW LaTeX filter, even if you can't open the files directly. The filter can read many macro definitions not created with the program.

• Extend typesetting capabilities with new LaTeX packages. Take advantage of the many new packages in Version 5.5 to enable specific LaTeX behaviors and extend the program's typesetting capabilities.

• Get troubleshooting help. A new, expanded edition of Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word provides more typesetting tips and tricks, new information about LaTeX packages that have been added to the program, and a brand new chapter on troubleshooting problems that can arise.

Compatibility

You can interact with colleagues more easily and distribute your documents in different formats when you take advantage of new and enhanced export filters in Version 5.

• Export your documents as RTF files. You can export your SWP, SW, and SNB documents as Rich Text Format (RTF) files, so that interactions with colleagues in non-TeX environments are simplified. The RTF export preserves the formatting you see in the document window. Any mathematics in your document can be represented with MathType 3 (Equation Editor) or MathType 5 objects. The resulting RTF file can be viewed in Microsoft Word even if an Equation Editor is not part of the Word installation. If the Microsoft Word installation includes the appropriate Equation Editor, any MathType 3 or MathType 5 mathematical objects in the RTF file can be edited. The file can also be displayed in outline mode.
• Read MathType mathematics in RTF files. In Version 5, you can open and read the MathType equations in RTF files when you import the RTF files in SWP, SW, or SNB. The equations are converted to LaTeX.
• Create more accurate HTML files. When you export your SWP, SW, or SNB documents to HTML, the program places any graphics generated during the process in a subdirectory. This version successfully exports fixed-width tables to HTML and saves the screen format to a Cascading Style Sheet (.css file). With HTML exports, you can make your mathematics available on various platforms over the Internet and in applications that can read HTML files.
• Export mathematics as MathML. When you export HTML files, you can output your mathematics as MathML or graphics. Note that not all HTML browsers support MathML.

Typesetting

Version 5 provides new typesetting capabilities and many new document shells, some intended for international use.

• Create typeset PDF files. Now you can share your work across platforms in PDF format by typesetting your SWP and SW documents with pdfLaTeX. No extra software is necessary to generate PDF files. The program automatically embeds fonts and graphics in the PDF file.
• Use pdfTeX to process files that contain graphics. Until now, using pdfTeX with most graphics file formats has been tedious or impossible. Before typesetting your document with pdfLaTeX, Version 5 of SWP and SW converts any graphics in the document to formats that can be processed by pdfLaTeX before typesetting.
• Preserve LaTeX cross-references in PDF files. If you add the hyperref package to your document, any cross-references in your SWP or SW document are converted to hypertext links when you typeset with pdfLaTeX. The package extends hypertext capabilities with hypertext targets and references. Additionally, pdfLaTeX fully links the table of contents in the resulting PDF file and includes in the file hierarchical markers and thumbnail pictures of all the pages in the document.
• Use LaTeX PostScript packages. If you create PDF files from your SWP and SW documents, you can take advantage of LaTeX packages, such as the rotating package.
• Use expanded typesetting documentation. A new edition of Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word provides more typesetting tips and information about more LaTeX packages. Learn how to tailor typesetting specifications from inside the program to achieve the typeset document appearance you need.
• Examine an expanded gallery of shells. View images of sample documents for each shell provided with the program in A Gallery of Document Shells for Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word, provided on the program CD as a PDF file. Use the documentation to choose document shells appropriately.
• Choose shells tailored for international documents. Version 5 includes shells for documents created in non-English languages, including German, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. SWP and SW, in combination with TrueTeX, support international typesetting with the Lambda system.

Computation

Complex computational capability makes SWP and SNB indispensable tools.

• Compute. In SWP and SNB, compute right in your document with a computer algebra engine.
• Compute with MathType mathematics in RTF files. If you open an RTF file containing MathType equations, the program converts the equations to LaTeX. In SWP and SNB, you can compute with the mathematics just like any other mathematics in SWP and SW documents.
• Use an improved Exam Builder. The Version 5 Exam Builder is fully functional. Printed quizzes can be reloaded without losing their math definitions, just like other documents. Exam Builder materials generated with earlier versions work successfully in Version 5.

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Features in MacKichan Software Products

Each new version of SWP, SW, and SNB adds more features and capabilities to our products. Here's a summary of the key features for our most recent releases.

Upgrading to Version 5.5 from

• Version 5.0

• Version 4.x

• Version 3.5

• Version 3.0

• Version 2.5

New features when upgrading from Version 5.0 to Version 5.5

If you're upgrading from Version 5.0 to Version 5.5, the new features listed below are available.

Compatibility

• Collaborate more easily. Now you can import the contents of files created directly in LaTeX or LaTeX2e into SWP or SW using a special non SWP/SW LaTeX filter. Even if you can't open the files directly, you may be able to import them with the filter.

Typesetting

• Extend typesetting capabilities with new LaTeX packages. Take advantage of many new packages that enable specific LaTeX behaviors and extend typesetting capabilities.

• Get troubleshooting help. Version 5.5 includes a new, expanded edition of Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word. It provides more typesetting tips and tricks, new information about LaTeX packages, and a brand new chapter on troubleshooting problems that can arise.

Computation

• Compute and plot. In SWP and SNB, compute and create plots right in your document with a computer algebra engine.

• Animate 2D and 3D plots. With newly-implemented renderers, create animated 2D plots in polar coordinates, animated 2D and 3D plots in rectangular coordinates, animated 2D and 3D implicit plots, and animated 3D tube plots and plots in cylindrical and spherical coordinates and vector fields. Define an Animation Variable t for the plot and specify the animation start and end times and the rate of frames per second.

• Manipulate and inspect 3D plots. Rotate, move, zoom in and out, and fly through 3D plots.

• Explore plots and animations with the VCAM window. View plots in read-only or read-write documents using the VCAM window with playback toolbar controls. Use your mouse to start, stop, re-run, and loop animations; change the animation speed; rotate; and zoom-all from the VCAM toolbar.

• Label 2D and 3D plots. Now you can enhance your SWP and SNB plots with text labels that move with the plot when you rotate or zoom. You can specify the location of the label within the plot both horizontally and vertically, and you can set the orientation of the plot precisely.

• Create 3D implicit plots. Plot equations involving three variables.

• Use completely revised instructions. The new edition of Doing Mathematics with Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook explains how to use the built-in computer algebra system to do mathematics and create plots without dealing directly with the syntax of the computer algebra system.

New features when upgrading from Version 4.x to Version 5.5

These new features are available when you're upgrading from Version 4.x to Version 5.

Compatibility

Interact with colleagues more easily and distribute your documents in different formats with new and enhanced export filters.

• Collaborate more easily by importing native LaTeX files.

• Export your documents as RTF files.

• Read MathType mathematics in RTF files.

• Create more accurate HTML files.

• Export mathematics as MathML.

Typesetting

Version 5 provides new typesetting capabilities and many new document shells, some intended for international use.

• Create typeset PDF files.

• Use pdfTeX to process files that contain graphics.

• Preserve LaTeX cross-references in PDF files with the hyperref package.

• Extend typesetting capabilities with new LaTeX packages, including LaTeX PostScript packages.

• Get troubleshooting help with expanded typesetting documentation in Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word.

• Examine an expanded gallery of shells.

• Choose shells tailored for international documents.

Computation

Complex computational capability makes SWP and SNB indispensable tools.

• Compute with a computer algebra system.

• Animate 2D and 3D plots.

• Manipulate and examine 3D plots.

• Explore plots and animations with the VCAM window.

• Label 2D and 3D plots.

• Create 3D implicit plots.

• Use completely revised instructions in a new edition of Doing Mathematics with Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook.

• Compute with MathType mathematics in RTF files.

• Use an improved Exam Builder.
  
  
  

New features when upgrading from Version 3.5 to Version 5

If you're upgrading from Version 3.5 to Version 5, many new features are available.

Compatibility

Interact with colleagues more easily and distribute your documents in different formats with new and enhanced export filters.

• Collaborate more easily by importing native LaTeX files.

• Export your documents as RTF files.

• Read RTF files with greater accuracy.

• Read MathType mathematics in RTF files.

• Export your documents to accurate HTML and preserve the formatting.

• Export mathematics as MathML.

• Copy selections more accurately to other applications with enhanced copy operations.

• Tailor the way graphics are copied or exported from your document.

Productivity

Work easily and efficiently with expanded editing tools.

• Customize and configure the Symbol Cache toolbar and the expanded symbol panels.

• Work more easily with new Editing and Typeset toolbars and new Tools commands.

• Magnify your printed document independent of the document window.

• Work faster with enhanced keyboard shortcuts.

• Change the style more easily with the greatly expanded Tag Appearance dialog.

Typesetting

Version 5 provides new typesetting capabilities and many new document shells, some intended for international use.

• Create typeset PDF files.

• Use pdfTeX to process files that contain graphics.

• Preserve LaTeX cross-references in PDF files with the hyperref package.

• Extend typesetting capabilities with new LaTeX packages, including LaTeX PostScript packages.

• Get troubleshooting help with expanded typesetting documentation in Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word.

• Examine sample documents created with an expanded gallery of shells in A Gallery of Document Shells for Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word on the program CD.

• Choose shells tailored for international documents.

• Use Omega/Lambda to produce typeset documents for international use.

• Work with an updated version of TrueTeX and associated TeX tools.

Computation

Complex computational capability makes SWP and SNB indispensable tools.

• Compute with a computer algebra system.

• Animate 2D and 3D plots.

• Manipulate and examine 3D plots.

• Explore plots and animations with the VCAM window.

• Label 2D and 3D plots.

• Create 3D implicit plots.

• Use completely revised instructions in a new edition of Doing Mathematics with Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook.

• Work with enhanced computational commands.

• Compute with MathType mathematics in RTF files.

• Use an improved Exam Builder to develop online quizzes and course materials.
  
  
  

New features when upgrading from Version 3.0 to Version 5

These new features are available when you upgrade from Version 3.0 to Version 5:

Compatibility

Interact with colleagues more easily and distribute your documents in different formats with new and enhanced export filters.

• Collaborate more easily by importing native LaTeX files.

  Export your documents as RTF files.

• Read RTF files with greater accuracy.

• Read MathType mathematics in RTF files.

• Export your documents to accurate HTML and preserve the formatting.

• Export mathematics as MathML.

• Copy selections more accurately to other applications with enhanced copy operations.

• Create graphic images of correctly formatted text and mathematics for pasting or exporting.

• Tailor the way graphics are copied or exported from your document.

• Take advantage of improved international support and different national language versions of Windows.

• Work in Windows XP, 2000, and earlier versions and with MIcrosoft Office 2000 and Internet Explorer 5.0.

Productivity

Work easily and efficiently with expanded editing tools.

• Customize and configure the Symbol Cache toolbar and the expanded symbol panels.

• Work more easily with new Editing and Typeset toolbars, new Tools commands, and a Context menu.

• Take advantage of new file management features.

• Magnify your printed document independent of the document window.

• Work faster with enhanced keyboard shortcuts.

• Change the style more easily with the greatly expanded Tag Appearance dialog.

• Use an improved licensing scheme.

Typesetting

Version 5 provides new typesetting capabilities and many new document shells, some intended for international use.

• Create typeset PDF files.

• Use pdfTeX to process files that contain graphics.

• Preserve LaTeX cross-references in PDF files with the hyperref package.

• Extend typesetting capabilities with new LaTeX packages, including LaTeX PostScript packages.

• Get troubleshooting help with expanded typesetting documentation in Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word.

• Examine sample documents created with an expanded gallery of shells in A Gallery of Document Shells for Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word on the program CD.

• Choose shells tailored for international documents.

• Use Omega/Lambda to produce typeset documents for international use.

• Work with an updated version of TrueTeX and associated TeX tools.

Computation

Complex computational capability makes SWP and SNB indispensable tools.

• Compute with a computer algebra system.

• Animate 2D and 3D plots.

• Manipulate and examine 3D plots.

• Explore plots and animations with the VCAM window.

• Label 2D and 3D plots.

• Create 3D implicit plots.

• Use completely revised instructions in a new edition of Doing Mathematics with Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook.

• Work with enhanced computational commands and capabilities.

• Compute with MathType mathematics in RTF files.

• Use an improved Exam Builder to develop online quizzes and course materials.

• Work with an updated version of TeX.
  
  
  

New features when upgrading from Version 2.5 to Version 5

These new features are available when you upgrade from Version 2.5 to Version 5:

Compatibility

Interact with colleagues more easily and distribute your documents in different formats with new and enhanced export filters.

• Collaborate more easily by importing native LaTeX files.

  Export your documents as RTF files.

• Read RTF files with greater accuracy.

• Read MathType mathematics in RTF files.

• Export your documents to accurate HTML and preserve the formatting.

• Export mathematics as MathML.

• Produce more portable documents with the portable LaTeX filter.

• Produce TeX files for Internet use.

• Open online TeX files created with the program.

• Copy selections more accurately to other applications with enhanced copy operations.

• Create graphic images of correctly formatted text and mathematics for pasting or exporting.

• Tailor the way graphics are copied or exported from your document.

• Use improved graphics filters.

• Create text files with an expanded range of symbols and characters.

• Take advantage of improved international support and different national language versions of Windows.

• Work in Windows XP, 2000, and earlier versions and with MIcrosoft Office 2000 and Internet Explorer 5.0.

Productivity

Work easily and efficiently with expanded editing tools.

• Produce your document with or without La TeX typesetting.

• Format documents more easily with the Tag Appearance dialog.

• Customize and configure the Symbol Cache toolbar and the expanded symbol panels.

• Work more easily with new Editing and Typeset toolbars, new Tools commands, a Context menu, and default actions for keyboard keys.

• Navigate easily with linked documents.

• Take advantage of new file management features.

• Use new tags to create different types of notes and environments.

• Magnify your printed document independent of the document window.

• Work faster with enhanced keyboard shortcuts.

• Use an expanded Help system.

• Use an improved licensing scheme.

Typesetting

Version 5 provides new typesetting capabilities and many new document shells, some intended for international use.

• Create typeset PDF files.

• Use pdfTeX to process files that contain graphics.

• Preserve LaTeX cross-references in PDF files with the hyperref package.

• Extend typesetting capabilities with new LaTeX packages, including LaTeX PostScript packages.

• Get troubleshooting help with expanded typesetting documentation in Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word.

• Examine sample documents created with an expanded gallery of shells in A Gallery of Document Shells for Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word on the program CD.

• Choose shells tailored for international documents.

• Use Omega/Lambda to produce typeset documents for international use.

• Work with an updated version of TrueTeX and associated TeX tools.

• Use improved fonts for better looking documents.

Computation

Complex computational capability makes SWP and SNB indispensable tools.

• Compute with a computer algebra system.

• Animate 2D and 3D plots.

• Manipulate and examine 3D plots.

• Explore plots and animations with the VCAM window.

• Label 2D and 3D plots.

• Create 3D implicit plots.

• Use completely revised instructions in a new edition of Doing Mathematics with Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook.

• Work with enhanced computational commands and capabilities: piecewise functions, partial differential equations, separate computation spaces for each document, improved plotting, and much more.

• Use formula objects for dynamic calculations.

• Compute with physical units.

• Compute with MathType mathematics in RTF files.

• Import data from your calculator.

• Use an improved Exam Builder to develop online quizzes and course materials.

• Work with an updated version of TeX.  

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The factors to consider in publishing mathematics-intensive documents on the Web are the same as publishing any other content online:

• Who is your intended audience?

• What browser do they use?

• What is their connection speed?

• What other software is available to them?

The answers to these questions influence your choice of Web publishing options and your readers' Web viewing options.

Your Web Publishing Options

With Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook, you can create mathematics-intensive information for the web in .tex files, HTML or XHTML files, or PDF files.

Creating .tex files

You can create your document as a .tex file, just as you would create any other SWP, SW, or SNB document. No special action is required. You can then place the file directly on the Web. When the file is saved to a reader's SWP, SW, or SNB installation, any mathematics in the file is live. Readers who do not yet have SWP, SW, or SNB can view the files with Scientific Viewer. If you have SWP, SW, or SNB.

Creating .tex files for online use has these advantages:

• Ensure that mathematics and plots appear accurately.

• File appearance is the same for all readers.

• Link files together in the preferred sequence.

• Use less space on the server.

• Simplify file management.

Creating HTML or XHTML files

With our software, you can export your .tex file as HTML or XHTML. All mathematics and plots are ordinarily exported as graphics, but you can also choose to export mathematics as MathML, the HTML counterpart for mathematical content. The program supports MathML for Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher and for Netscape7/Firefox.

• Internet Explorer requires a plug-in to support MathML. By default, we script MathML for MathPlayer.

• Netscape 7/Firefox has direct support for MathML.

We recommend exporting to XHTML when you use MathML. The mathematics in an HTML or XHTML file is not live. View the same sample .tex file exported to HTML with mathematics as graphics.

Creating HTML or XHTML files with mathematics as graphics has these advantages:

• Export directly from SWP, SW, or SNB.

• Save time with one-step creation of accurate HTML files.

• Share mathematics-intensive information on a variety of platforms via the Internet.

• Ensure that mathematics and plots appear accurately.

• Link to supplementary online material.

Creating HTML and XHTML files with mathematics as MathML has these advantages:

• Export directly from SWP, SW, or SNB.

• Ensure that mathematics and plots appear accurately.

• Create one file per document for all text and mathematics.

• Simplify file management.

• Link to supplementary online material.

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With Version 5.x of SWP or SW, you can typeset compile your file with pdfLaTeX. The result is a stunning PDF file that you can post on the web. Since SWP and SW convert all the graphics in your document to a form that pdfLaTeX can use, there are no limitations on the kinds of graphics you can include (as there are if you use pdfLaTeX without our software). If you use the hyperref package in your document, your PDF file will be fully hyperlinked with links in the table of contents and with hierarchical bookmarks that reflect the structure of your document. View these samples:

• A PDF file created using pdfLaTeX

• The .tex file used to create the PDF file.

With SNB and with earlier versions of SWP or SW, you can create PDF files of your documents if you have Adobe Acrobat Distiller installed. Create your document, then from the File menu, Print to Acrobat Writer or Distiller. Note that the resulting file will not be hyperlinked. View these samples:

• The PDF file that results when the sample .tex file has been produced without typesetting and then printed to Acrobat Writer or Distiller

• The PDF file that results when the sample .tex file has been typeset in SWP or SW and then printed to Acrobat Writer or Distiller

Creating PDF files has these advantages:

• Create beautifully typeset PDF files directly from SWP or SW.

• Ensure that mathematics and plots appear accurately.

• Share mathematics-intensive information on a variety of platforms via the Internet.

• Simplify file management.

Your Readers' Web Viewing Options

Your readers can access .tex, HTML, XHTML, or PDF files created with SWP, SW, or SNB in a variety of ways. Each has advantages and disadvantages.

Using Scientific Viewer

If your readers don't have SWP, SW, or SNB, we recommend that they use our free Scientific Viewer to access the SWP, SW, or SNB .tex documents you place on the Web. Using Scientific Viewer has these advantages:

• Scientific Viewer is free for the reader.

• The mathematics that can be displayed and accessed is unlimited.

• Download files quickly.

• Readers can print high quality documents from your website.

• Links to HTML files and .tex files can be intermixed.

However, readers must download the free software (12 MB) before viewing your document. Also, Scientific Viewer is currently available only for Microsoft Windows® platforms.

Of course, your readers can also use any of our software products-SWP, SW, or SNB-for maximum flexibility.

Using an HTML browser

Documents created with Version 4 or above of SWP, SW, or SNB can be exported in several HTML formats. You can export any mathematics and plots in these graphics formats: .bmp, .dib, .emf, .gif, .jpg, .png, or .wmf. Documents exported to HTML have these advantages:

• The HTML output filter creates an accurate HTML version of your document.

• Readers can view your documents on many computer platforms with recent versions of the most popular browsers.

• You can further manipulate the HTML files with other Web authoring tools.

• The HTML filter interprets any HTML commands in your document.

Note that the files download relatively slowly (though more quickly with MathML), and the mathematics in the files is not live.

Using a browser that can read MathML

When you export to HTML or XHTML, any mathematics in the document can be exported as MathML. MacKichan Software is a corporate member of the MathML standard committee, and is committed to supporting XML and MathML. Our products can produce documents using MathML designed for viewing by Netscape Navigator 7 and above, MathPlayer (a free MathML rendering plug-in from Design Science), and IBM techexplorer. Using MathML has these advantages:

• The HTML output filter creates an accurate HTML version of your document.

• You can further manipulate the HTML files with other Web authoring tools.

• The HTML filter interprets any HTML commands in your document.

However, the mathematics is not live. MathML is not supported by all HTML browsers, and it is interpreted differently by different browsers, so not all readers may see the same thing.

Using a PDF reader

Readers who have the free Adobe Acrobat reader can read PDF files created from SWP and SW Version 5 documents using pdfLaTeX. Authors with SNB can create PDF files with Adobe Distiller. Although readers must download the free software before viewing your document, PDF files offer these advantages:

• The software is free for the reader.

• The mathematics that can be displayed and accessed is unlimited.

• The files download moderately quickly.

• Readers can print high-quality documents from your website.

• Links to HTML files and PDF files can be intermixed.

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Choose the product that fits your work best

Our software programs make communicating mathematical ideas easier. The product that's right for you depends on the tasks you need to accomplish. 

 

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Publish books or journal articles
Collaborate with LaTeX users
Compute symbolically and numerically
Publish on the web
Develop a mathematical website
Write exams and course materials
Program and debug mathematical applications
Plot and animate 2D and 2D graphs
Teach and study mathematics and science at the undergraduate and secondary school levels

 

Products designed with mathematics in mind

Our word processing products all share the same easy-to-learn, easy-to-use scientific word processor. You use natural mathematical notation to enter and edit mathematics in the same environment as text. Convenient, configurable editing and symbol toolbars simplify your work. And you can quickly learn to enter equations, create tables and matrices, import graphics, and perform a standard array of document-based tasks.

Our word processing products export directly to HTML, with mathematics exported as graphics or as MathML. Publishing mathematical documents on the Internet has never been so easy.

Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word use LaTeX, the industry standard for mathematics typesetting, to produce beautiful mathematical documents. When you typeset your documents, LaTeX automatically generates tables of contents, footnotes, indexes, bibliographies, and cross-references. Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word simplify the production of journal articles, books, and other large documents.

Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook add a computer algebra engine for symbolic and numeric computation. The mathematical expressions you create are live. With just a mouse click, you can evaluate, simplify, solve, and plot mathematical expressions right in your document. No complex syntax is necessary. Use the built-in Exam Builder to construct exams and course materials algorithmically, and generate, grade, and record quiz results on a web server. Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook are ideal for long distance learning and classroom instruction, and for writing reports, research papers, and homework.

The full-featured computer algebra system is designed for imperative, functional, and object-oriented programming. The notebook interface includes an integrated source-level debugger, a profiler, a graphics tool for visualization, and hypertext help.

Student versions

We offer students greatly reduced prices on all our software products. That doesn't mean the software is diminished in any way, though. Our student versions are identical to the professional versions, except for the prices.

Summary

• Choose Scientific WorkPlace if you write for publication and need a computer algebra system
• Choose Scientific Word if you write for publication
• Choose Scientific Notebook for writing exams or homework and the easiest-to-use computer algebra system

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The Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word and Scientific Notebook CD contains 19 additional spell checkers.  Licensing for these additional products are available to purchase separately.

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